Fjögur píanó
| "Fjögur píanó" | |
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| Song by Sigur Rós | |
| from the album Valtari | |
| Recorded | 2011-12 |
| Genre | Ambient |
| Length | 7:50 |
| Label | Parlophone |
| Songwriter(s) | Jón Þór Birgisson, Orri Páll Dýrason, Georg Hólm, Kjartan Sveinsson |
| Valtari track listing | |
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8 tracks
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"Fjögur píanó" is a song by Icelandic band Sigur Rós from their sixth studio album, Valtari.
Two official music videos were released. The first, directed by Alma Har'el and starring Shia LaBeouf and Denna Thomsen, premiered on June 18, 2012. The second premiered on 15 October and was directed by Anafelle Liu, Dio Lau and Ken Ngan.
The first music video for the song premiered on June 18, 2012. It is directed by Alma Har'el and stars Shia LaBeouf and Denna Thomsen as "a couple trapped in a perpetual cycle of addiction and abuse, set to a somber piano melody that at times hints at some light at the end of the tunnel."
The video, an overnight sensation gaining millions of views on YouTube, was applauded as a unique artistic achievement and covered in the media around the world. Filmmaker magazine called it "provocative and dramatically compelling," while Nowness magazine called it "Hypnotic."
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Har'el said, "For me, it's about not knowing how to get out of something without causing pain to somebody else. For other people it might be about candy and fish. I'm down with that."
The second music video was released on October 15 and was chosen by the band as the overall winner of the Valtari Film Competition. "Skinned", featuring "Fjögur píanó", is a restless self sculpturing of one's body. It is a glimpse of the corporeal unconscious, forever trapped in Lacan's double sided mirror.
As part of their "Valtari Mystery Film Experiment" series, Sigur Rós contacted twelve filmmakers to each direct a music video for a song of the filmmaker's choice from Sigur Rós' sixth studio album, Valtari. Each filmmaker was presented with a budget of $10,000 and no instruction from the band "to bypass the usual artistic approval process and allow people utmost creative freedom." "Fjögur píanó" is the third instalment in the series. Sigur Rós bassist Georg Hólm recalled Har'el's original concept for the video was Sigur Rós "on super 8 in Iceland all playing the piano lines from the song, but then she rang and said she'd met Shia LaBeouf and they'd changed the idea, that was the last [Sigur Rós] heard of the concept and she told [them] nothing about what was going on." Hólm went on to say the finished video was "absolutely amazing." Har'el stated the music video for "Fjögur píanó" is about "addiction to drugs, or sex, or anything–and how you get stuck in a cycle."
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